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1TB Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe x4 Solid State Drive SSD

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BH Photo Video has 1TB Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe x4 Solid State Drive SSD (SSDPEKNU010TZX1) on sale for $109.99 - Extra $45 Off coupon found on product page (automatically discounted in cart) = $64.99. Shipping is free.

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About the Product
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Interface
  • Intel QLC 3D NAND
  • Up to 3500 MB/s Sequential Read Speeds
  • Up to 2500 MB/s Sequential Write Speeds
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  • Includes a 5-year limited manufacturers warranty w/ purchase

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  • This offer matches our previous FP price/deal; opportunity if you've missed out on this earlier deal
  • This model features the latest QLC NADN technology, designed to deliver nearly double the speed of the previous gen; compatible w/ a wide variety of desktop computers, laptops and other devices
  • Offer valid for October 6, 2022 or while supplies last
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BH Photo Video has 1TB Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe x4 Solid State Drive SSD (SSDPEKNU010TZX1) on sale for $109.99 - Extra $45 Off coupon found on product page (automatically discounted in cart) = $64.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member sr71 for finding this deal

Note, discount will automatically apply in cart

About the Product
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Interface
  • Intel QLC 3D NAND
  • Up to 3500 MB/s Sequential Read Speeds
  • Up to 2500 MB/s Sequential Write Speeds
Warranty
  • Includes a 5-year limited manufacturers warranty w/ purchase

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • This offer matches our previous FP price/deal; opportunity if you've missed out on this earlier deal
  • This model features the latest QLC NADN technology, designed to deliver nearly double the speed of the previous gen; compatible w/ a wide variety of desktop computers, laptops and other devices
  • Offer valid for October 6, 2022 or while supplies last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Oct 6, 2022 4:13 PM
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Deal_Hunter_XOct 6, 2022 4:13 PM
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Quote from Hat-Trick View quoted comment :
Why does it have to be the better brand? Hynix is good, no arguing there, but Intel is a good brand also.

5 YR warranty is a plus. QLC NAND makes it cheaper but lower endurance. For general use it's a great deal. Speeds are very respectable for the price. In for a couple. Thanks OP!
Hynix is more power efficient which gives longer laptop battery life.
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dealmeister3000Oct 6, 2022 4:38 PM
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Quote from lamah View quoted comment :
How is this compared to the sk Hynix 3rd gen that was posted couple of weeks back?
SK Hynix is way better and it isn't even close. For a bit more than $20 extra dollars get the SK Hynix if you are using it in a laptop or as a C: drive.

Max write on this drive is 2500 MB/s while it is 3200 MB/s on the SK Hynix.

The SK Hynix P31 Gold is more power efficient and it runs cooler. It is literally THE NVME drive for laptops bar none. Other drives may be faster under ideal conditions but once thermal throttling kicks in in a laptop housing those ideal numbers will never be seen.

If you just need a drive for storage and don't care about write speeds and you have adequate cooling I guess this could be a deal. Or if you are refurbishing an old laptop to resell this would work... better than a HDD.
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Oct 6, 2022 4:56 PM
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SharpCreature2897Oct 6, 2022 4:56 PM
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370 TWB is subpar
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Oct 6, 2022 5:09 PM
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colklink77Oct 6, 2022 5:09 PM
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Quote from Zero_Skills View quoted comment :
Hynix is more power efficient which gives longer laptop battery life.
The difference in power useage of NVME drives is small enough you would never notice. CPU/GPU and Display are what use all the power in a laptop.
Oct 6, 2022 5:18 PM
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NiravP3261Oct 6, 2022 5:18 PM
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Not the fastest drive. But still much faster than SSD and for the price, not a bad drive to store games. I have a older version of this drive and have been using it for about 3 years to store steam games. Still going.
Oct 6, 2022 5:29 PM
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galetsOct 6, 2022 5:29 PM
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Quote from Hat-Trick View quoted comment :
Why does it have to be the better brand? Hynix is good, no arguing there, but Intel is a good brand also.

5 YR warranty is a plus. QLC NAND makes it cheaper but lower endurance. For general use it's a great deal. Speeds are very respectable for the price. In for a couple. Thanks OP!
FWIW, Intel has been historically considered very meh as far as their SSDs go.
Oct 6, 2022 5:30 PM
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drslovakOct 6, 2022 5:30 PM
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Great price

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Oct 6, 2022 5:35 PM
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einzelherzOct 6, 2022 5:35 PM
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Quote from galets View quoted comment :
FWIW, Intel has been historically considered very meh as far as their SSDs go.
iirc at the beginning of SSDs they were one of the top competitors. That died down after a few years though.
Oct 6, 2022 5:40 PM
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RowdyReptileOct 6, 2022 5:40 PM
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Quote from SirMarvinHaggler View quoted comment :
You guys are reaching a little with the criticisms. A 370 TBW rating means you could load 370,000 GB of data in its lifetime before replacement is necessary. For context:

* Fortnite - 30GB

* Apex Legends - 25GB

* GTA5 - 90GB

This means you could install all three games once per day literally every day for ~7 years before you wear out the drive.

One hour of 4K video is roughly 25GB. You could load nearly 15,000 hours of videos — that's 24 hours a day every second for over 600 days.

So yeah, it'll last you a long, long time as a regular windows/Linux boot drive. Be realistic about your usage. This is an amazing price for a great SSD.
Interesting. I'm a photographer and recently shot 200GB of photos at a football game. If I shot that much every week, that would be 10TB/year, or this drive would last me 37 years. That'll do.
Oct 6, 2022 5:54 PM
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Hat-TrickOct 6, 2022 5:54 PM
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Quote from galets View quoted comment :
FWIW, Intel has been historically considered very meh as far as their SSDs go.
What does "meh" mean? Unreliable? Expensive? Bad support?

I don't expect a $65 1TB SSD to be a 5-star market overperformer, but given that the speeds are actually pretty good and has a 5 year warranty from an US company and good reliability, I'll take "meh".

Here's a Tomshardware.com review where they give it a 4 star rating and the "cons" are of no real importance:

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review

Seems better than "meh" for $65.
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Oct 6, 2022 6:13 PM
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azur3s0ngOct 6, 2022 6:13 PM
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Thanks OP! In for one for storage drive. I've been using the 660p as my desktop daily driver for more than 3 years, happy with it so far.
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nope, the penalty occurs when SLC cache is exhausted even nearly full that's upwards of 25GB in this model. Wink all SSDs will decrease in performance as they fill. as a boot drive your use case is mostly random reads/writes - not a long sequential write that's likely to exceed cache.... reads are unaffected regardless
Quote from jnads View quoted comment :
Not a good C drive as it is QLC.


Keep in mind QLC gets huge performance penalties as the drive starts to reach max capacity
endurance is plenty - check the endurance of the Samsung 840 Pro - which was a flagship SSD at one point, even the old 840 TLC Planar was calculated to last at 10.2 yrs with way less TBW, other posters also addressed the TBW in relative terms
Quote from BuyMoreChuck View quoted comment :
would this be good for a C: boot drive or does it really have lower endurance?
Intel made SSD's like the 730 series since the MLC SATA days - some of the first 5yr wtys and rated for 70GB/day duty at the 240GB/480GB level. (enterprise level in those days)
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FWIW, Intel has been historically considered very meh as far as their SSDs go.
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Oct 6, 2022 6:32 PM
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JamesP8983Oct 6, 2022 6:32 PM
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Good price for a solid item. Been using it for 3 years no problem. I think i got mine for around $70
Oct 6, 2022 6:38 PM
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jnadsOct 6, 2022 6:38 PM
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Quote from sr71 View quoted comment :
nope, the penalty occurs when SLC cache is exhausted even nearly full that's upwards of 25GB in this model. Wink all SSDs will decrease in performance as they fill. as a boot drive your use case is mostly random reads/writes - not a long sequential write that's likely to exceed cache.... reads are unaffected regardless

endurance is plenty - check the endurance of the Samsung 840 Pro - which was a flagship SSD at one point, even the old 840 TLC Planar was calculated to last at 10.2 yrs with way less TBW, other posters also addressed the TBW in relative terms


Intel made SSD's like the 730 series since the MLC SATA days - some of the first 5yr wtys and rated for 70GB/day duty at the 240GB/480GB level. (enterprise level in those days)
QLC has longer erase times (than TLC)

As your drive fills up there will be fewer empty blocks to quickly write data to which is why performance degradation occurs since it takes 10x longer to erase data than write it


But you're correct, all drives degrade but QLC moreso

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Oct 6, 2022 6:39 PM
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jnadsOct 6, 2022 6:39 PM
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Quote from sr71 View quoted comment :
nope, the penalty occurs when SLC cache is exhausted even nearly full that's upwards of 25GB in this model. Wink all SSDs will decrease in performance as they fill. as a boot drive your use case is mostly random reads/writes - not a long sequential write that's likely to exceed cache.... reads are unaffected regardless

endurance is plenty - check the endurance of the Samsung 840 Pro - which was a flagship SSD at one point, even the old 840 TLC Planar was calculated to last at 10.2 yrs with way less TBW, other posters also addressed the TBW in relative terms


Intel made SSD's like the 730 series since the MLC SATA days - some of the first 5yr wtys and rated for 70GB/day duty at the 240GB/480GB level. (enterprise level in those days)
QLC has longer erase times (than TLC)

As your drive fills up there will be fewer empty blocks to quickly write data to which is why performance degradation occurs since it takes 10x longer to erase data than write it


But you're correct, all drives degrade but QLC moreso



That said, this is a "high end" QLC drive if there is such a thing since it has both DRAM + SLC cache

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